2. Climate change and our responsibilities

3. Prof. Dr. Asghari Bano Dean Faculty Of Biological Sciences,
CHAIRPERSON DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SCIENCES
QAU, Islamabad
Dr. Muhammad Mubeen
Assistant professor, department of Plant Sciences

4. CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIO
Temperature of the globe is predicted to rise by 30C by 2040 and up to 5-60C by the end of the century.
Monsoon rains will occur at higher intensity but the frequency of occurrence will be reduced (IUCN 2009).
Effects of rising temperature will increase transpiration rate resulting in decline of soil moisture.
The CO2 concentration will increase. Carbon dioxide is an important greenhouse gas.

5. It is the rate of change that is of current concern to scientist.
Carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) are critical to many aspects of plant, herbivore, and microbial metabolism.
Interactions involving C and N that might influence the global C cycle are of great importance to atmosphere-biosphere interactions, and thus to human society.

6. Changing Trends Increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere
Pre-industrial revolution (1789) 280 ppm
Present (2004) ppm
Expected level (2050) 550 ppm
Rising surface temperatures
Global Av. Temp. rise (20th century) 0.6 °C
Projections for to 5.8 °C
Changing rainfall patterns
(IPCC 2001)

7. Per capita Fresh water availability

8. What we can do?

9. Adaptation and mitigation strategies
Development of heat and drought tolerant crop varieties by conventional breeding methods and biotechnology techniques.
Breeding of crop varieties with relatively deep root systems.
Adoption of strict demand management and efficiency improvement measures in all water-use sectors, principally in the supply, distribution and use of irrigation water; reuse of marginal quality irrigation effluent.

10. Local rain harvesting and building of surface and sub-surface storages for agriculture and other local needs.
Facilities need to be provided to the farmers such as free connection of electricity and flat rate charges so that enough groundwater may become available to leach the salts out of the poor root zone.

11. strategies for improving the crop tolerance against stresses
Molecular
Physiological and
Biochemical
Agrochemicals
Stress
Tolerant microbes
GM-Crops
Stress tolerant
genes

12. Use of crop growth modeling in mitigating Climate change impacts

13. Experiment Cultivars H1 = Monsanto-919 H2 = Pioneer-30Y87
Irrigation Schedules
I1 = nil irrigation (control)
I2 = 4 irrigations (1st at 6 LS i.e. leaf stage, 2nd at 10 LS, 3rd at 14 LS, 4th at 18 LS)
I3 = 6 irrigations (1st at 6 LS, 2nd at 10 LS, 3rd at 14 LS, 4th at 18 LS, 5th at silking, 6th at blister)
I4 = 8 irrigations (1st at 6 LS, 2nd at 10 LS, 3rd at 14 LS, 4th at 18 LS, 5th at silking, 6th at blister, 7th at milking, 8th at dough)
I5 = 10 irrigations (1st at 6 LS, 2nd at 10 LS, 3rd at 14 LS, 4th at 18 LS, 5th at silking, 6th at blister, 7th at milking, 8th at dough, 9th at denting and 10th at physiological maturity)
I6 = irrigation at 25 mm potential soil moisture deficit
I7 = irrigation at 50 mm potential soil moisture deficit

18. Dissemination of the concept in Pakistan

20. LAMINAR FLOW FOR DISINFECTION
Presented By:
Kubra Batool
Farah Amir

21. LAMINAR FLOW FOR DISINFECTION
Presented By:
Kubra Batool
Farah Amir

22. LAMINAR FLOW FOR DISINFECTION
Presented By:
Kubra Batool
Farah Amir

23. LAMINAR FLOW FOR DISINFECTION
Presented By:
Kubra Batool
Farah Amir

26. Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
Some facts about
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

28. Any question……….?